My favorite chrome postcards

Chrome is the postcard collector’s name for cards that look like glossy color photographs but are printed on ordinary lightweight card stock. They appeared first in the 1940s and are still standard today, although often they are larger now. M and M Lunch, Blairsburg IAA highway restaurant at the junction of U.S. highways 69 and 20, the M and M boasted in the early 1960s that it was “completely” air conditioned. I guess it needed it badly since the closest trees are far away. Lone Star Café, Bowie AZLocated on Highway 86, the café advertised that it was at the “gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks.” The unincorporated town of Bowie was scarcely populated so it’s likely this was the only eating place. Open seven days a week from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. A 1954 advertisement said it had been under the same management for seven years on a route that was “Mountain Free.” Offered for sale in 1968, the notice claimed it was a “real money maker.” D’Andrea’s 3 Acres Drive-in, Woodbridge CTThis turnpike…